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BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1887-08-24
IVA NO HAY MAS ALLAI

81 no estuvieramos ley3ndolo
y yreleyendolo, no 10 creeriamos,
porque lA sola idea de tamafla ini.
quidad repugna por modo incon.
trastable q Ia rectitud de nuestra
conciencia cristiana y . nuestro
corax6n de entusiastas, de nunca
tibios espafioles, de. siempre sin
cerosTy carifosos hermanos dc
los compatriotas que han nacido
en- territorio hispano csldeado por
el candente sol de les tr6picos.
No 10 creeriamos, no, d no leer.
10. Porquejama hubieramos con
cebido, .aun en- los mas fieros pa.
roxismos de la passion politica,
aun en- los mas enconados furores
de secta, que llegaran los desa
tentadosa proselitos del sutono-
mismo cubano a.lanzar al rostro
de sus hermanos procedentes de
la Metr6poli ell guante de la mas
atroz de Jas osadias, el nltraje
del odio mas implacab,e, mas IRA.
cional, mas injustice ..
Va 90 nos quisre tratar, no co
mo 4 adyersalios politisos, den.
tro de la confraternidad espanols
que d todos. los nacidos aquende
y all)nde el mar, debe unirnos
CON vinculo indestrnctible, sino
como q extranjeros que hubiera-
mos yenido a estas tierras 4 bus,
car hos pitalidad bajo los pliegues
de nna bandera que no fuese la
nuestra, como a inmigrantes pro
cedentes de extrafiss regiones
desconocidas; mas adn; como a
odiados enemigos, B quienea hay
que asediar cor asechanza inexo
-able56 quienes hay que negar ei
agus y el tuego, q quienes hay
que acosar con rabia de hiena
u
hasta Ia quinta generacion.
Sepanlo puestros lectores, Sc
panic los habitantes todos de es.
tas provincias tan honradas como
6eles; sepalo, y escandalfcese, =
pasmese, Ia nacion que de todos
nosotros es madre y d todos re-
parte por igual sns ternuras y sus
henefcios; sepanlo, y espantense,
que Ia monstruosidad no es para
menos, entire hombres civilizados,
el mundo entero, la hum anidad,
ofendida en- una de sus mas sa-
gradas leyes.
El autonomiemo cubano ha
tifado al suelo ell antifaz con
que hasta ahora cnbria su rostro,
y dice con voz estentorea, por
medic del 6rgano ot1cial de su Di-
1ectorio:
"La lucha que hemos entab!ado
ygostenemos, no es la lucha de I'm
sistema de Gobierno con el cual
90 combate osro sistema; no es Ia
lucha de la antonomfa contra h
asimilaci6n; "es la lucha del
criollo, del cubano contra el pc
ninsular. contra Ia innsigraci6,s
de ID Metropoli en- esta Antilla.
Yei hay quieD, asombrado, IRE
90 de- es'''oor, snponga qns hay
n sstas lfneas, s6ai
parte de un edi
ltitulo iQus me-
sludido pssi6. /
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1887-08-24
s. T.. I.

Ha entrado va nuestro Reve.
rendf-imo Preiado en- una resuel
ia convalecencis, precursora &c
su complete restablecimiento.
Lo cual celebramos de todo
soraz6n.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1887-08-24
COMENTEMOS.

COMENTEMOS.
N ClamOr del Pals copia algo
de un escrito publicado por 81
Correo. con ell epfgrafe Manual
del pertectO Gobernador Il Tt
veo, besugo!-y luego dice 10 81
guiente:
-" Estan garantizados en- Puer
so-4.sco, con espiritu impartial
todos los intereses legitimos?
Desde luego que no."
No hay que extrafiar nj la PIE.
gunta nj la respuesta.
Porque E Clamor del Pats Sc
pregunta y Sc conte 'ta q la vez
Como Juan Palom,: 70 me
10 guiso, 20 me 10 como"
Decimos, y repetimos, que nc
hay que extranar nj la pregunta
nj la respuesta.
SQniSn no ignora que uno de
los pruritos de nuessros serios
adversarios es ell de pintar q esta
provincial como el peor de los ba
jalatos' de Turquia2
iY trabsjo iodtil! A pesar de
clio, no logran hacer recomenda
BILE la autonomfa.
Nj 10 lograran jamas.
Per 0mnsG S@cuIG...... amen.
"Iutereses legitimos, dice Ell
Clamor del Pats, son la libertad
y la dignidad del ciudadano,"
lApenas 81 esta garantizada la
libertsd del ciudadano aqui!
Que es este el pats mas libre
del mundo, pruebalo la prensa au
tonomista con TODD 10 que dice y
SO la deja decir.
iVaya 81 es interes legftimo Ia
dignidadl
Esto no obstante, la iudiscuti.
bic dignidad de Institutes bene-
meritos y de colectividades res
petabilisimas es eterno b.anco d.
las iras y aechazos de la prenss
autonomista.
Que dice-i oh, prodigio !--que
los intereses legitimos de la liber
tad y la dignidad del ciudsdano
no estan aquf garantizados.
Lo del refran aquel:
"Una cosa es predicar, y otra
dar trigo".
Laprensa autonomista Sc desga
hitara predicando sin dar elem
plo. pero 10 que es dar trigo.. .....
Oar -. 81 lie gusta.
"Solamente un dar le agrada,
7 es ell dar de no dar nada."
Como no sean disgustos.
Que q la postre Sc da q 81 mis-.
ma, por carambola.
"Iuteres legftimo, dice Ell Ola
NOR del Pats, es la conquista de
nuestras leyes, y aqui Sc violau
con inaudita frecuencia."
ST; ESQ sucede cuando no Sc da
por Ia vena del gusto d los auto.
nomistas.
Que en- ESQ de leyes, estan por
la del embudo.
Lo ancho para ellos.
Y 81 asi no resulta, va pueden
ustedes taparse los oidos.
iViolacion!
;Arbitrariedad!
lAtropello!
Mdsica celestial, en- resumen.
Y ell buen sentido victima de
un componte, de ese dichoso com
ponte que a cada instante corean
los componteadoses tenaces de la
l6gica y de Ia raz6n entire nos
otros.
"Por otra parte, a1ade El Uo-
NOR del Pats, Ioye ell Gobernador
de esta provincia lasquejas legiti-
mas de la opini6n?"
iC6mo no ha de oirlas, 81 ince
santemente, y q VOC en- cuello, Sc
esta la opinion quejando de las
violencias y excesos de las pro-
psgandas autonomas2
TX POGO que clama la opinion,
quejandose de esas propagandasl
"El censurado sistema para Ia
creoci6n de Alcsldes (ya pareci6
aquello) no Sc interrumpe nj sc
limita", escribe N Clansor del
Pats. -
Ciertamente. Nj Sc interrum.
pira, ri lifnitafa, segtin Ey Clantor
del Pats, mientras eli 90 y tres
cuar.os y medic por 100 de los
nombramientos de Alcaldes no
recaigan en- correligionarios del
diyettido colega,
La raina Del pals se consume,
agrsgs Es Ciaa,oF. pot el dsscrg.
diso lassrioF J esteries'" /
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1887-08-24

No puede ser mas unanime y patri6-
tica Ia actitud de Ia prsnsa peri6dica
de esta Corte.
En- "Ls Epoca" , en- La CORES
pondencia" de estos dltimos dias leo
las siguientes noticias:
La Epoca:
Aoteayer, confsrenci6 con ell Er.
Ministro de Uitramsr ell vice presidente
de la Diputsci6n de Puerto, Rico Sr.
Mu6oz, sobre varios asuntos references
8 quslla Antilla.
Para determfnar 81 deben 8 no de-
clararse de servicio general los ferro
carriles de AguadiIla 4 Lares y de La
res al pnerto de Arecibo, en- la isla de
Puerto Rico. se ha dispuesto por el Mi
nistsrio de Ultramsr que Sc abra una
information sobre el asunto."
La Oorrespondencia:
"Por el depsrtamento de Ultramal
SO IA rsmitido ana real orden al 60
thsraador general de Puerto Rico, POI
Ia que Sc dispoue SO envis & dicho cen.
tro ministerial una certif:aci6n de-
ncusrdo de la comisi6n provincial So
bre modification del ancho de 10 vi,
en- los fsrro. carries que Sc coastruyau
en- 10 isla, d que Sc refsre Ia iustanci.
que ha elevado el presidents de Ia re-
ferida comisi6n.
Y hsgo aqui punto Anal, hssts m
reereso.
De V. effno. amigo.
/ r. 8. ZoaGm.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1887-08-24
JtJNTA CENTRAL.

III Exclno. Sr. Gobefnadof 6e.
neral ha dispussto que conssita-
yan Ii Junta Cehttal dol cease do
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1887-08-24
tnKplS DEL INCgADN.

El voleAS pr6xitno d seta lsr se
|resela por Ius chlspagoa qae 20.
nitA 81 ctaser, ( d crater, hoy,
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1887-08-24
El peri6dico citado continda asi.

Digpa igualmente do loor y ala.
bansa es Ia conducta adoptada por Ia
Diptuacion provincial lie 10 pequefis
Antilla, cnya corporation, inspirads
en- q clamor general de ID prensa Pc
ri6dica del pals, en 81 bien de la Isla )
en- ID gravedad que sntraha Ia crisis
que 10 devors, ha comensado de nuevo
& proponef refornas do interds vital,
en- consonancia con los acuefdos que
tenia tumados dssds 81 Aho 1885, 6po.
CD dssvsntufAda, puesto que dc alls
psft..,n Loo dssatfss que tQdos lamsnta.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1887-08-24
IsIa los senores

ooblaci6n de IsIa los seiiores
siguientes: -
Excmo. 81. Ge al Segundo Cabo.
VI 20.
/" Pr dente de ID Audiencia.
:" 1ni ldente General de Ha-
cisl d.
!" G G andants 1Principal d.
+" vi presidents DC 10 Die
.put ci6n.
limo. Sr. Fisca de 8. M.
Sr. Jefe de Ia secci6n de Fomento de
este Gobiery ).
Provisor Ec ,siSstico.
AIcalde de Capital.
Coronel de 'stsdo Mayor.
+" Coronel de ngeuieros.
Ooronel de .Artilleris.
Coronel de "a Guardis Civil.
Sub inspector de Sanidad MilitaY.
1ngeniero j efs de Obras Pdblicsas
Administrsdor General de 0sma.s
nicaeianee.
/" Iugeniero de Monies.
Inspector de Esenslae del Norte.
" Inspector de Escuelas del Sur.
|" Director del Institnto.
I" Director De 10 Eseusla Professional.
" Don Federico Asenjo. /
+" q ias de Iriafte. ~ ass
I" Florentino Fraile, Ofcial en-.
cargado del Negociado de. Agri.-
culturs, Industria , Concrete
de Ia SecretariA de este CO.
bieruo. ~ g s.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1887-08-24

"No somos resimistas nj exsgera-
dos; pero prevemos graves whales, y
queremos evitsrlos dando cuenta de
su existencia.
Puerte-Rico, la pequena Antilla, Ia
RIGA perla del Oceano, modelo siempre
de cordura, de lealtad y cari6o q Ia
madre patria, visne hoy sufriendo
hondos peSares = desgracias, J victi :
ma de una crisis funesta que la ami
qoila = sojuxga, que Ia martirizs =
descompone, convirtiendo en- harapien-
ia TERRA d 10 que fus IN dia Ia admi-
raci6n y el encanto de propios , de ex-
trafos.
Puerto Rico, emporio de bienandan.
zas J psraiso de placeresL padece en- Ia
actualidad una dolencia aguda de ca
racter econ6mico, que es urgente aten-
der y remediar, Vi no quersmos que
Antilla tan codiciada y RIGA llegue 4
80 completa ruina.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1887-03-31
A Chance for Inventors.

1t he's been estimated that tho present
mode OF branding cattle In the western
country damages their hides to the ex.nnt
OF about Si2, 600, 600 annually, WHICH Ia a
tolerably large sum for the cattle raisera
and the meat consuming pubic TO nav
every year, to maintain ,ractice which,
Is cruel, improvident and unnecessary.
Ihere must Of coarse be some digtin.
gushing mark placed upon range cattle
III order to know who they belong To- and
IL must be one which will endure weather
anu wear, and which cannot easily be al
tered or obliterated by dishonest men
But there must be better way to accom-.
plish this end than burning enormous
brands upon the most valuable nortions If
tho hide, and multiplying Their, with every
change OF ownership
An intelligent writer IN The New yorl,
Live Stock Journal discusses this matter
at length and suggests some alternatives
which are probably the best and ONLY ones
ut present known, yet none OF them ara
pfactlcal. Among them arc tho Use Of
acids or stains, coloring the horns or cut
ting them at different lengths, brands Oh
the hoof or horn, ear marks, the use OF
tags, etc. But oil of these lack the ele.
ments OF sufficient variety, pern,suepce
and security; Yankee ingenuity should
surely find something better.
II some device or plan could be hit upon
to take the place OF the branding iron. n
would doubtless be universally adopted
through the west and secure fortune 10
the inventor. There are many men of
genius and science among our regular
readers, and we commend the subject to
their attention; 1t is worthy of serious
consideration.-New York Market Jour
nal.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1887-03-31

table. The withersd leaves are brought
down from the garnet and distributed In
piles, q pile for each two opposite work.
mons, perpetual kneading roll. You
would think 1t is nothing to do, but the
same muscles are exercised, of the back
as they bend from side to side and of the
arms and hands as they manipulate the
amount they can manage in hand, push
ing or kneading 1t as they roll it off first
to the northeast, as you might say, and
then to the northwest It is warm work,
but the heat Is nothing to that in tea
machine-working stores, where the tenn
perature is kept high to accelerate the
processes. ...... 80 ...--
Every few moments they take up the
handful they have been rolling and scatter
it down; then collect It and knead il
again. The scattering is done that the
leaves may not be clogged together.
had been wondering how the moist,
macerated mass could ever dry into the
separated leaves and fine fragments of
our tea canisters. And had not under
stood how, when they pluck leaves from
o bush and put them Unfortunately into
one basket, the youngest and smallest,
and those little larger, and the largest,
could he assorted SO rs to make the diff
ferent grades Of tea. The table process
made It plain. When they have rolled 1t
long enough the whole is mixed together
and reapportioned in piles between each
pair of men as before. The second time
they knead It much harder. There are
five minutes for the men between ouch
rolling, and they can slip ont and swallow
little rice If they choose, but the majority
eat nothing until after their work is over,
when they have only their rice and cur
ries. They are far from being gor-
handlers, these slender Imbed people:
nor are they sensual race, as COM
pared with occitlentals. So sensitive are
they made by this light diet that hot
curry stimulates their spirits and sets
their tongues into talking equal to the eff
feet Of n quart of lager on grosser Inen.-
Auna Ballard in Chicago News.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1887-03-31
Chinese woman slavery.

No matter where the Chinese go, and no
matter under what form Of government
they are living, they are bound to carry
out their ideas of woman as O marketable
article. In Hong Kong, under a govern
ment that airs its boast that slavery can
not exist under the shadows of its flag,
women are bought and, sold every day.
In the British settlement at Shanghai reg
ular auctions of women are held under
more icoldbloeded circumstances than
Arab bazars or those slave auctions in the
south. 1t is part of tho system of the
Chinese, and can no more be eradicated
in places where it has gained foothold
than the Chinese themselves. So long as
the Chinese confined their buying and SELL
ing operations to their own women the
subject did not present such an acute in
terest for the rest of the world.
But, unfortunately, the Chinaman is
awakening to the superiority of foreign
productions over his own native article.
Chinese are now endeavoring In all parts
Of the world to which they migrate to con-
tract temporary marriages with white
women, and il, when the time comes to
return to China, It is not elected to desert
both family and wife, the unfortunate
dupe, who has perhaps thought she en-
tered into perfectly legal union, is pre-
vailed upon to accompany her lord to
China, she will have to take the place Of
third or fourth wife-i. e., a marketable
and prosecuted concubine-in a native
establishment. Some very lamentable &C.
currences of this kind have been brought
to notice in late years. To the woman
who contracts union with a Chinaman
who has left his country an adult, the
chances are almost sure that she takes up
with one who has already wife or two.
San Francisco Examiner.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1887-03-31
DANGERS OF DESK LAUNCHING.
A Solemn Warning to Over Industrious
Employees, and n Hint to Employers.

A Solemn Warning to Over Industrious
Employees, and n Hint to Employers.
In the Office of an insurance company
on LaSalle street ! saw, the other day, a
young man eating his lunch at his desk.
1t was very modest lunch which his
good mother. a New England Puritan,
had prepared for him at home with typ
ical New England simplicity. 1t consisted
of bread and butter-the slices OF the
former rather thick and the layers Of the
latter quite thin-two hard boiled eggs
and piece of mince pie. Doubtless the
pie was good-an New England mince
pie is-but pitied the young man from
the bottom of my heart. With his glass
of water from the hydrant, his eyes fixed
upon a letter before him even while he
munched, his attitude reminded me Of
that Of q slave bending over his toll and
eating the crust which his hard task
master had begrudgingly flung him. In
ten minutes the lunch was finished, and
then the young man resumed his labors
with reports, policies and letters.
] made some inquiry concerning him,
and learned that he was one Of the most
valuable employees in the off1ce-earnest,
faithful and lOyal-and that his services
were appreciated and rewarded with q
good salary, out of which he and his
mother, good Yankee that she was, were
daily saving q snug sum. And yet I
pitied him. II had been an old man
should have said TO him, as earnestly aud
paternally as knew how: "Young man,
don't eat any more lunches at your desk.
Tell your mother not to put up any more
eggs or mince pies for you: you can't af-
ford it. You may save d dime or two
and half hours time, but you can earn
yonr salary and more, too, after taking
an hour for lunch out. Tho dimes you
are saving now will some day bc needed
to pay Doctors bills and support you
when you are too sick to work. Stop this
desk lunching, Go out to q restaurant,
buy some soup, some warm food, take
your time to its eating, find some COM
panions to 60 with you and chat and
laugh with you. Take little stroll in
the open air, fill your lungs with oxygen
that is not superheated and lifeless, get
your mind away from your work little
while, and, depend upon It, the sum of
your life's strength, energy and happiness
will be all the greater for it. "-Chicago
Herald
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1887-03-31
Living in Washington.

Ten years ago hveried coachman or
footman was q novelty in Washington.
The officials who employed them first were
howled at as aristocrats and imitators Of
the fashions of Europe. To-day there is
not an official who has money enough to
have servant but puts him in livery. 1t
will be but short time before powdered
wigs will be used to further distinguish
the servants Of ultra fashionable families.
A high official family has already con-
suited an artist in this town concerning
new livery designs, and these designs in
clude the powdered wig. There will be
no more outcry against the wig innova-
ton than there was against the liveries Of
ten years ago. 1t will be remembered
what sensation was created in New
York when Vanderbilt at the opera placed
a liveried footman at the door of his box.
Arthur reproduced this In Washington,
and the Clevelands have adopted the
Arthur Acknowledgements Cor. New
York World.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1887-03-31
The Ruby Mines of Burmah.

Owing to the very great jealousy of the
Burmese government, the ruby mines
have been carefully guarded from all
strangers, and from this cause our knowl-
edge regarding them Is very small. The
mines are said to be only about sixty
miles northeast Of Mandalay. The extent
of ground over which the rubies exist has
not been precisely ascertained, but it Is
believed to extend at least over 100 square
miles.
The "gem bed,'' as it is called, or strata
in which the rubies are found, varies con-
siderably at different points in its depth.
Pits are sunk down vertically till a gem
bed has been touched, and then horizontal
galleries are formed through it. These
sometimes they are only few inches,
while in others they are found several
feet in depth. The earth of the gem bed
is brought up to the surface, where it is
carefully washed and the gems are SO.
cured. The most Of the rubieS are small,
but large ones do turn up; the difficulty
is to find large ones without u flaw.
The lapidaries or gem polishers are in
the capital and not at the mines. The
polishing process is performed by
pounding the smaller gems and worth
less stones. These are pounded and
mixed with other substances and formed
into cakes about ten inches long and four
wide. The good rubies are rubbed on
this. When the stone has been ground
down roughly OH this fine cake is en-
ployed, and the finishing touch to the gem
is given by rubbing if on plates of brass or
pper.-London News.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1887-03-31
Life Of a Stage Trro.

But the fact remains that although some
of her associates are good and refined peo-
pie, many of them are neither. They have
the power to make her life hideous. 1t Is
to be feared that the great virtue of the
theatrical profession, kindheartedness,
fails and, flags when q neophyte comes
among them. They are not kind to the
lady who steps on the stage. No people
are so generous to each other, none keep
their hearts so alive to melting charity,
none show more firmness in adversely,
none are more courageous in moment Of
danger than actors. Imagine Mrs. Charles
Stevenson. with o fire behind her, keeping
q whole theatre quiet while she coura-
geously kept ON with her part, in the blind
girl, in "The Two Orphansr' There was
a heroine! They live on the verge of the
heroic, and their business makes them
disdain the commonplace. If they are un-
kind to the newcomer it is almost their
only lack Of generosity Imagine the strain
upon them. To march through the dreary
round of one piece perhaps for year. No
wonder that they want all their applause,
poor people! it is but feeble reward for
all that they do.-Mrs. John Sherwood.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1887-03-31
People Born to Dance.

Strangers consider us dancing maniacs,
for we are at II all the year around. The
real reason lies partly in our climate and
partly in our population. No other sport
can thrive here in winter. The sea air
and the heat Of q half million fires makes
sleighing, shedding and all winter sports
impossible. Then we are made up Of
Scotch, Irish, English, Germans, French,
Italians and Jews-all inveterate dancers.
1t seems as IL everybody dances, and
usually OIL the cooperative plan. Wherever
twenty factory hands or counter girls are
gathered together a ''coterie'' or social
club is formed. 4 years dues and fines,
amounting to nothing until they aecumu-
late, serve to hire hall and buy few
tickets and cards, and that is enough.
Every sort of people give their annual
balls. The elevated train men, the Knights
Of Labor, the thousands of shop girls, the
political clubs, the demi monde, the mar.
ketmen, the Catholic societies, tho BIZ
cyclers, canoeists, athletic clubs, cigarette
girls, city department employees and every
body else And 1t makes no difference
about Sunday either. In fact, Sunday
night is the favorite time for dancing in
the cast side tenement district, and even
in the uptown brown stone quarter among
tho wealthy Hebrews. Dancing schools
are very numerous, and the latest dance
steps can he learned for prices within the
means Of sewing women, but most of us
have dancing born in our heels.--New
York Cor. Providence Journal.